Thank you for posting this....huge DUNE series fan here including the son's/co-author prequels. This will be a challenging undertaking to say the least. It would be amazing if someone could make a multi-movie series starting with the early prequel story lines completely and correctly presented. There is no other way to lay out the themes, history, critical underpinnings of the story without going way back in time. Star Wars and DUNE both tried and they did not succeed at all (IMHO). Did you see the Sci-Fi channels 6-part Dune/Children of Dune presentation some years ago with William Hurt, et. al.? I thought that was at least a better shot at it...
Really looking forward to see how this new DUNE shapes up...thanks again!
Thank you for posting this....huge DUNE series fan here including the son's/co-author prequels. This will be a challenging undertaking to say the least. It would be amazing if someone could make a multi-movie series starting with the early prequel story lines completely and correctly presented. There is no other way to lay out the themes, history, critical underpinnings of the story without going way back in time. Star Wars and DUNE both tried and they did not succeed at all (IMHO). Did you see the Sci-Fi channels 6-part Dune/Children of Dune presentation some years ago with William Hurt, et. al.? I thought that was at least a better shot at it...
Really looking forward to see how this new DUNE shapes up...thanks again!
We watched ARRIVAL last night on Vudu (missed it when it was in theaters); some of THE best sci-fi I believe I've ever seen. Challenging plot-lines, etc....like INCEPTION, I have desire to watch it a couple of more times to retrace all of the subtleties......I cannot wait to see what Villeneuve does with DUNE!
We watched ARRIVAL last night on Vudu (missed it when it was in theaters); some of THE best sci-fi I believe I've ever seen. Challenging plot-lines, etc....like INCEPTION, I have desire to watch it a couple of more times to retrace all of the subtleties......I cannot wait to see what Villeneuve does with DUNE!
Inception didn't strike as being that great.. Good and imaginative but .. somehow "Matrix-like".... Arrival OTOH is IMO a Masterpiece. The kind of movies that one needs to own. I will get it on 4K-Blu-Ray or whatever when it comes out . I came off the movie humbled it is how much I liked it. Dunes OTOH left me cold, I cannot fully understand wha's all the fuss was about it even after reading the books ... perhaps once "treated" by Villeneuve. His cinematography is impressive... Thanks NS
I loved the original Dune series books by Frank Herbert when I read them back in the early 70's.
The 1984 movie was, in my opinion, one of the worst movies ever made. I remember being very unhappy after watching the movie in a theater. Such an insult to Herbert's books in my mind. Made me hate Sting forever.
I hope Denis Villeneuveope makes a movie worthy of the books. His Arrival movie was outstanding so let's pray he does just as well with Dune.
We're a good bunch; we all like smart sci-fi flicks with an extra edge. Villeneuve has that edge to deliver; he just have to keep it sharp every day, razor blade sharp.
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Inception didn't strike as being that great.. Good and imaginative but .. somehow "Matrix-like".... Arrival OTOH is IMO a Masterpiece. The kind of movies that one needs to own. I will get it on 4K-Blu-Ray or whatever when it comes out . I came off the movie humbled it is how much I liked it. Dunes OTOH left me cold, I cannot fully understand wha's all the fuss was about it even after reading the books ... perhaps once "treated" by Villeneuve. His cinematography is impressive... Thanks NS
I liked Inception and respected the effort for the complexity of the plot lines and how interwoven time was w.r.t. past, current, future and alternative timelines. Arrival has a lot of that and is (I agree) a much better effort overall. The Dune 1984 movie could not possibly have succeeded as it was so typical of 1980s film-making which is in direct opposition to a deep, intricate multi-layered story like Dune. They also fought a losing battle from the get-go as does any Dune movie undertaking as (IMHO) it's impossible to fully appreciate Dune until you've traced all the back forward from the history of the great houses, the Machine Crusade, the Butlerian Jihad, etc, etc...etc..... For a 1st and 2nd installment, the SyFy channel's 6-hour miniseries for Dune and Children of Dune was much better but overall,...the same difficulty will always arise.